The Shakespeare Effect: A History of Twentieth-Century Performance

by Robert Shaughnessy

Book Overview

This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre. Topics addressed include modernist Shakespearean performance's relation with psychoanalysis, the hidden gender dynamics of the open stage movement, and the appropriation of Shakespeare himself as a dramatic fiction and theatrical icon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349418390
• ISBN13: 9781349418398
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"